NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1185MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +75%

4.55 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

1344

Shading Units

1920

112

TMUs

120

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.88 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.101 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.550 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

TU106

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N18E-G1

Kepler

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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